Six people have been chosen to be added to the Canadian Agriculture Hall of Fame - John Anderson, Dori Gingera-Beauchemin, Gaétan Desroches, Joe Hudson, Dennis Laycraft and Peter Sikkema.
Anderson rose through the ranks of Oppy, a global fresh produce retail business, to become chief executive officer.
Gingera-Beauchemin was deputy minister of agriculture for Manitoba until she retired in 2024.
Deroches led Solio Cooperative Group, Canada’s largest agriculture cooperative.
Hudson founded Burnbrae Farms and grew it into Canada’s largest egg-producing, egg-grading and egg-processing business. He was a long-serving director of the Egg Farmers of Ontario marketing board. He died last year.
Laycraft spent 40 years working for beef farmer organizations.
Sikkema was a popular weed scientist at the Ridgetown campus of the University of Guelph.
